No. 11. KepharVs Patent Fruit and Vegetable Preserver. 



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One of the Greatest inventions of the 

 Age— Kephart's Patent Fruit and Ve- 

 getable Preserver. 



The outer columns in the above cut re- 

 present walls of stone, enclosing the inner 

 construction. 



The light shading at the bottom, descend 

 ing to the centre, represents the earth. 



The dark shadings. A, A, and K, K, re. 

 present two boardings, with from six to ten 

 inches space, and this space filled with a 

 substance that will best exclude heat. 



F is the Fruit Room, in which articles are 

 to be placed for preservation. 



C, C, a floor or cover to the fruit room, 

 made water-tight, with a coat of pitch over 

 its surface to prevent moisture from pene^ 

 trating. 



I, an apartment to be filled with ice sup- 

 ported by the floor, C, C, and designed to 

 contain ice enough, when filled, to last du- 

 ring the whole year. 



B, B, and D, D, are spaces around the 

 fruit room, intended for the meltings of the 

 ice on the top floor to pass oW. This ice 

 water, as it passes down these spaces around 

 the fruit room, and over the tight floor at 

 bottom, in the space, D, D, serves to absorb 

 any heat which may find its way through 

 the non- conductor, K, K. 



O, the outlet for ice water. 



H, hatchway or entrance into fruit room. 



The fruit room, F, is intended to be below 

 ground, and the ice apartment, I, if desired, 

 can be above; buildings above ground being 

 now generally preferred for ice to those be- 

 low ground,. 



It will be seen from the construction, that 

 the non-conducting substances. A, A, and 

 K, K, are designed to prevent the admission 

 of heat from the earth, at the sides and bot- 

 tom, into the fruit room F. ; while the ice 

 upon the floor, C, C, acts by keeping the 

 fruit room at a constant uniform tempera- 

 ture, dry, and so cold as to exert a preserv- 

 ing influence upon articles placed therein. 



The undersigned having purchased the 

 patent right of the above invention for the 

 United States, excepting the States of New 

 Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland, and the 

 cities of New York and St. Louis, invite the 

 attention of the public to an examination of 

 the scientific principles upon which the 

 above invention is based, as well as its prac- 

 tical utility — and offer for sale patent rights 

 for the construction and use of the Preserver 

 by States, Cities, Counties, towns, or indivi- 

 dual rights, upon terms that will induce all 

 interested in the growth or sale of fruits 

 and vegetables, or in the curing and preser- 

 vation of meats; also dealers in butter, eggs, 

 &c., to purchase rights and construct Pre- 

 servers. 



As will be seen by the above drawing, its 

 success depends entirelyupon chemical truths. 



The room F, in which fruits, &c., are 

 placed for preservation, will remain the 



hole year at a constant, uniform temper- 

 ature, so near the freezing point as to arrest 

 the rotting as well as the ripening process 

 of fruits, &c., without danger of freezing 

 them. That the fruit room F, will remain 

 at this temperature will be evident from the 

 fact, that the air in contact with the floor 

 C, C, on which the ice rests, becomes nearly 



